By Tim Kane Special to the Times Union Repetition doesn’t have to be dull. Both Richard Garrison and Tina Seligman, the two artists in “Measured Variations” at the Saratoga Arts Center Gallery, employ the duplicity of designs to create divergent works that surprise. Using a Spirograph, Garrison plays with thousands of circles, spinning shapes into […]
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By David Malachowski Special to the Times Union It’s been decades since bluesman Robert Johnson had that fateful meeting with the devil at routes 49 and 61 in Clarksdale, Miss. (as myth may have it). These days, seems like the blues itself is coming to a crossroads. Some folks try to move it forward with […]
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By Michael Eck Special to the Times Union Phil Rice is busy, busy, busy at Curtain Call Theatre this year. Coming off last season’s “Corpse!” and “Leading Ladies,” he’s directing a new production of “Driving Miss Daisy,” which opens Friday. Then he’ll be leaping right into the amped-up rush of Georges Feydeau’s farce, “The Ladies […]
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By Tresca Weinstein Special to the Times Union ALBANY – A Jew, a Christian and a Muslim decide to compare their dreams. That’s not the first line of a joke but rather the subject of a teaching story passed down from Jelaluddin Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi mystic whose poetry is among the most widely read […]
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s preeminent scholar of African American Studies, will be given the 2009 Empire State Archives and History Award at 7:30 p.m. Monday, at The Egg in downtown Albany. Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 1981, Gates was named one of “Time” magazine’s 25 most influential Americans in 1997. He […]
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Albany County’s neighbor to the south, Greene County, will be featured in new documentary, “Greene County, USA,” on WMHT Ch. 17 at 1 p.m. Sunday and 10 p.m. Oct. 30. The documentary shows that the rural county is where the nation’s first unbreakable iron plow, the chemical process for color photography and the high-speed press […]
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The independent film “Trucker” will have its Capital Region premier at Proctors’ GE Theatre at 3:45, 5:30 and 7:15 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, and writer-director James Mottern will be on hand for a Q&A after the 7:15 p.m. Tuesday showing. “Trucker” stars Michelle Monaghan (“Mission: Impossible III”) as a hard-living truck driver who takes in […]
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